Kindertransport, robots, memories and the unexpected are brought to the stage in Part Two of the highly respected cornerHOUSE oneACTS festival. The showcase of new, original playwriting, now in its 14th year, takes place on Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11 at the arts centre in Douglas Road, Surbiton. Tickets to see four new
READ MORESurbiton is about to have its first book festival. Regency Bookshop and the cornerHOUSE arts centre have joined forces to launch the Surbiton Literary Festival. The two-day programme will feature bestselling crime novelists plus children’s author Alex Milway (that’s him in the main picture, behind his agent, sorry, dog). There is the chance to meet the
READ MOREConcert pianist Andrew Zolinsky will perform a programme which includes music by composers Liszt, Rachmaninov, Schubert and Ravel, at a fundraiser for Ukraine on Saturday, May 14 at 7pm at St Andrew’s Church in Maple Road, Surbiton. Andrew, a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music, has performed at many prestigious venues and festivals across the world. All
READ MOREAnna Gooch and Frazer Chesterman star in Single Issue, a tense drama about private passions and the public purse, at Surbiton’s cornerHOUSE oneACTS festival this weekend. Single Issue is one of four short plays in this showcase of original playwriting at the arts centre in Douglas Road. Tickets for the festival, now in its 14th
READ MOREThe haunting face of a survivor. This girl from Leatherhead was one of 112 children aboard the Titanic when it hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912 en route from Southampton to New York. Fifty children perished in the maritime disaster. David Lawson Lean, a drama teacher who researched the fates of those children who
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